Person1837 – 1919
Itagaki Taisuke
Tosa statesman who led the Freedom and People’s Rights Movement for an elected assembly and founded the Liberal Party
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A campaign for a national assembly and a constitution, begun when Itagaki Taisuke and others who had left the government demanded an elected legislature. The government promised to open a parliament in 1890.
Themes this person appears in
- The Opening of East Asia1839 – 1901
From the Opium War to the Boxer Protocol — sixty years in which China, Japan and Korea, forced open by Western gunboats, each tried to reform and went separate ways